The Yokohama Shindō (横浜新道) is a major highway located entirely in the city of

Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...

in the

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. It is signed as a bypass of National Route 1 as well as being partially designated as an expressway numbered E83. It is a bypass that travels from the southwestern corner of the city in Totsuka-ku northeast to

Kanagawa-ku is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 230,401 and a density of 9,650 persons per km2. The total area was 23.88 km2. Geography Kanagawa is locate ...

. It largely serves as a bypass to the west of central Yokohama.

Route description

The Yokohama Shindō is a bypass that travels from the southwestern corner of the Yokohama in Totsuka-ku northeast through Hodogaya-ku to Kanagawa-ku. It largely serves as a bypass to the west of central Yokohama. The bypass begins at an intersection in Kanagawa-ku with the main line of National Route 1. From this eastern terminus, it travels southwest, then west through the ward. It crosses into Hodogaya-ku then turns to the southwest again. Just after entering the ward it has a junction with the Mitsuzawa Route and the

Daisan Keihin Road is a national highway in Japan connecting Setagaya, Tokyo and Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, with a total length of . List of interchanges and features Daisan Keihin Road A major part of the National Route 466 is known as the , a limited access to ...

. This junction is the beginning of the expressway section of the Yokohama Shindō. The expressway has another major junction with the Yokohama Yokosuka Road in Hodogaya-ku before crossing into Totsuka-ku. In Totsuka-ku, the expressway has a few more interchanges before transitioning back to a highway with signaled intersections. After this transition, the road eventually ends at an intersection with the main line of National Route 1.

History

The route that would eventually become the free section of the Yokohama Shindō was established in 1948 during the

Occupation of Japan Japan was occupied and administered by the victorious Allies of World War II from the 1945 surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of the war until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect in 1952. The occupation, led by the United States wi ...

as a bypass of the older Tōkaidō. After the occupation's end in 1952, management of the road was handed over to the

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and the road was designated as a bypass of National Route 1 on 4 December 1952. The tolled expressway section was established in 1957. Construction of the expressway took two years, with construction being completed and the expressway opening on 28 October 1959.

Gallery

File:Yokohama Shindo (Free) 02.jpg, A junction along the at-grade section of the Yokohama Shindō File:Yokohama Shindo Hodogaya 02.jpg, The eastern terminus of the expressway section of the Yokohama Shindō File:Yokohama Shindo (Toll) 01.jpg, The expressway section of the route in Hodogaya-ku File:Shin Hodogaya Interchange 01.jpg, Shin-hodogaya Junction File:Yokohama Shindo Totsuka 01.jpg, The western terminus of the expressway section

Junction list

The entire expressway lies within

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. Junctions are at-grade unless noted otherwise.

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